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photo: Karen C. Kraft
Two on the Isle
by Edmund Conti
It’s time to keep calm
(unless you live on Guam).
Mad Manafort
by Cody Walker
(with apologies to Lewis Carroll)
He thought he saw an Allegation
Stop him in his tracks:
He looked again, and found it was
A Hammer? Sickle? Axe?
“The trail leads back to Putin, friends!
The cash! The email hacks!”
He thought he saw a Middleman
Who hadn’t yet been paid:
He looked again, and found it was
Hot Damn! a Predawn Raid.
“We happened by the neighborhood,”
Said Mueller. Huh. Well played.
Trump and Jong-un
by Orel Protopopescu
(with apologies to Robert Frost)
Some say the world will end with Trump,
Some say Jong-un.
From ways his brain plaques tend to clump,
I hold with those who favor Trump.
But if he’s not a total loon,
I think I know enough of fear
To say his red-state twin, Jong-un,
Might shoot our sphere
Over the moon.
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